NY Senate Bill 9191 – ‘Dismantling the Constitution One Amendment at a Time’

New York Senate Bill 9191 has set out to destroy the Bill of Rights in an effort to stop mass shootings. First Amendment, Second Amendment, Fourth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment rights are in jeopardy from one bill.

The Senate Bill 9191 introduced by Democrat State Senator Kevin Parker mandates “social media and search engine reviews prior to the approval of an application or renewal of a license to carry or possess a pistol or revolver; requires a person applying for a license to carry or possess a pistol or revolver or a renewal of such license to consent to having his or her social media accounts and search engine history reviewed and investigated for certain posts and/or searches over a period of 1-3 years prior to the approval of such application or renewal; defines terms.”

The bill stems from recent mass shooters who had social media histories that contained disturbing patterns. Fox noted that police could investigate “commonly known profane slurs used or biased language used to describe race, national origin, ancestry, gender, religion, disability or sexual orientation; threatening health or safety of another person, or an act of terrorism.”

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In other words, you will be preempted from obtaining any kind of New York gun permit whether for concealed carry or possession if you say stupid things on social media.

The main problem arises in that they will require applicants to give logins and passwords for all social media accounts and the browser you use.

Search history without a warrant:

Take, for example, a person who searches information on different situations for their job. That search history will include things that look frightening to an outsider, but are necessary for research. What if that person had to look up the accounts of killers or on various social media platforms, and look up historical facts about a killer…would that keep them from obtaining a gun permit? Depends on who’s looking at it, don’t you think?

In 2018, the Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision that in general, law enforcement must have a warrant to obtain location information from the provider on a person’s cell phone.

The stakes were enormous, since this judicial precedent could be applied more broadly, including government access to Internet, bank, credit card and telephone records.

Roberts in his opinion said going forward, warrants are needed.

“We decline to grant the state unrestricted access to a wireless carrier’s database of physical location information. The fact that such information is gathered by a third party does not make it any less deserving of Fourth Amendment protection. The Government’s acquisition of thecell-site records here was a search under that Amendment.”

And that isn’t even personally owned information like social media and browser accounts.

Forcing gun owners to comply with the requirement to provide such information seems to be a violation of several amendments. Apparently New York continues to not understand the words “shall not be infringed.”